I was about to make a hype thread for soon-to-be-launched blockbuster title Star Wars: Battlefront 2, but I logged into Twitter this morning, and the neckbeard cadre of gamers I follow were up in arms about how Battlefront 2 is the worst thing since the Holocaust.

So am I supposed to hate it? I can already see Sigma frothing at the mouth right now, about to go on a rant about how I'm easily swayed by what people think and calling me hurtful things like casual and bad.

But long is the list of games we have bought only to never play again. How can I, Tryden the Illmatic, encourage the young minds of this guild to play a game that might be bad?

Today I was riding the subway, when a young man caught my eye. It wasn't the sweat pants that I noticed. Or the curly chin hairs that seemed to struggle to grow anywhere past his neck.

No, it was his Nintendo Switch.

"Hey cool, is that the new Zelda?" I asked.

"G-good and you?" he replied.

His undiagnosed Aspbergers suddenly sent a flood of nostalgia flowing through me. I remembered VIndictive, all my friends, the great times we had in critically acclaimed titles like Champions Online and Global Agenda.

I got off the subway and walked by myself down the street. The crisp autumn air and the beautiful cacophony of coloured leaves had me in a chipper mood. I fondly remembered things I hadn't thought about in a while: like when Ghost used to drive on a ranger, when Sigma turned around and killed me in DayZ after I spent hours getting him geared and how once Spine said I was ugly IRL and it really hurt my feelings.